"The plans include a new crackdown on housing benefit and a “mark two” system of universal credit to help push people off benefits back into full-time, rather than part-time, work. There are also understood to be a range of measures to encourage more women, particularly single mothers, to return to work." – Daily Telegraph

"Officials estimate that a total of 500,000 people will lose disability benefits under Mr Duncan Smith’s plan for a “more focused” allowance called the Personal Independence Payment available only to those in “genuine need” of support." – Daily Telegraph

"The Home Secretary is planning to get rid of powers that allow companies to be sued if their staff are harassed by customers or clients. This currently leaves businesses open to lawsuits if they have not stopped members of the public making racist, sexist or “ageist” remarks to their employees." – Daily Telegraph

"Truly, cases brought under Section 5 of the Public Order Act, which outlaws ‘insulting words or behaviour’, range from the farcical and fatuous to the sinister. This is why the Mail supports the broad coalition of MPs and religious, secularist and free-speech campaigners calling on the Home Secretary to amend the law." – Daily Mail editorial

"Emergency plans to hire 70 more staff at troubled Heathrow were announced by the Immigration Minister yesterday as he acknowledged that the huge queues at the airport may be damaging Britain's reputation abroad. Damian Green also risked ridicule when he told MPs that the length of time non-European passengers waited to have their passports checked could depend on the direction in which the wind was blowing at the time." - Independent

"The government's central argument for the creation of new generation of secret courts has been "blown out of the water" by the leak of highly sensitive British intelligence in the US, according to former shadow home secretary David Davis." - Guardian

Secret courts would be a licence to cover up – David Davis for the Guardian

"In an article for the Daily Telegraph, the minister defends Mr Cameron against accusations that the Government is not doing enough to boost economic growth… He says: “David Cameron knows delivery means everything. As one of those ministers hauled into Number 10 to have my feet held to the fire, I’ve born witness to the PM’s sheer determination to get the job done….The Prime Ministerial interrogation presses ministers into detail that might surprise some.”" - Daily Telegraph

William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy

"The government should do more to help green industries boost economic growth, stop the UK falling behind international rivals, and avoid losing its global leadership on the environment, William Hague has told cabinet colleagues… The foreign secretary also warns in his letter to ministers that unless Britain takes stronger leadership on the green economy there is no hope of securing an international agreement on climate change." – Guardian

"François Hollande's reported plans to close France's nuclear plants could have a shocking impact on Britain, highlighting dangerous flaws in our national energy policy" - Independent

Life’s got tougher. We all have to work harder – William Hague for the Times (£)

"Some traditionalist MPs are outraged about what they say is an attempt by Downing Street to stack the 1922 group with loyalist, modernising MPs who do not want to anger the party's leadership. Last night Mr Osborne, the Chancellor, held a special briefing of the modernising 301 group of Conservative MPs in Westminster. That came after Mr Cameron hosted a drink for specially-chosen Conservative MPs at his flat in Downing Street on Monday night." - Daily Telegraph

"The battle is now focusing on the two secretary posts among the six officers of the 1922." - Guardian

Beijing furious after Cameron meets the Dalai Lama on his visit to Britain - Daily Mail

Greg Clark and Labour's Mayor of Liverpool: We fight together for Liverpool – Guardian

A doctors’ strike would betray their patients – Dr Sarah Wollaston MP for the Daily Telegraph

Think-tanks will take over civil service policy role

"Under the scheme, to start this autumn, departments would commission consultants or think-tanks to draw up policy, develop it and “torture test” it instead of using civil servants. Officials said that the policies could range from revising business regulations to cutting billions from welfare payments or wider public sector reform." - The Times (£)

"Ministers say it’s easier dealing with union bosses than permanent secretaries. The Civil Service love affair is over" – Alice Thomson for the Times (£)

Emboldened Miliband turns to Cruddas to draw up radical plan for general election

"Ed Miliband has sprung a surprise by appointing the free-thinking Labour MP, Jon Cruddas, as his policy chief with a brief to draw up a radical programme for the next general election. Liam Byrne, a Blairite, lost his attempt to hang on to the policy brief but retained his post as shadow Work and Pensions Secretary." – Independent

Alistair Darling says stripping Fred Goodwin of knighthood had 'a bit of the lynch mob' about it – Independent

Be bold, Ed – bring Alistair Darling back into the fold – Matthew Norman for the Independent

Eurocrisis latest

"Newly inaugurated French President Francois Hollande has pledged to work with Germany to resolve the EU's economic crisis. He was speaking in Berlin following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hours after being sworn in. Both leaders said they wanted to keep debt-stricken Greece in the euro." – BBC

"In or out of the euro, another default on Greek debt now looks inevitable. This, now held mainly by European banks which would lose a significant part of their capital stock, threatens another banking crisis." – Scotsman editorial

How Keynes would solve the eurozone crisis - Marcus Miller and Robert Skidelsky for the FT (£)

Government’s job is to shield UK taxpayers from Euro chaos – Allister Heath for City AM

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